Overview For many years the VMware Orchestration platform (i.e. vRealize Orchestrator or vRO) has been leveraging JavaScript as its scripting language of choice. Any out of the box content and customer provided custom content has been created in JavaScript leveraging plugins to expose external product capabilities that can be leveraged via JavaScript objects, properties and … Continue reading vRealize Orchestrator – Let’s Talk Polyglot
vRA8
Workspace One Access – Reverting Access Policy Changes When You Are Locked Out
Overview This is a very quick how-to with regards to re-gaining access to Workspace One Access following a miss-configuration of the default access policy. This is much more common than you would think! It's Easy When You Know How In older versions of vRA (7.x) it was quite common to make an access policy change … Continue reading Workspace One Access – Reverting Access Policy Changes When You Are Locked Out
vRA with Terraform
Overview Using vRealize Automation 8 (either SaaS or On-Prem) directly via the GUI or even the REST API is all well and good but what about if you have slightly different requirement such as creating and consuming constructs and content as code. One of the major selling points of vRA is the IaC use case … Continue reading vRA with Terraform
vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Overview This article is all about leveraging the static network assignment construct in vRA Cloud/8 Cloud Assembly blueprints and the impact this has (currently) on provisioning vSphere VMs. This topic seems to cause lots of head scratching and issues, really because currently if you try and leverage static address assignments (i.e. asking vRA to assign … Continue reading vRA with Cloud-init and Static Networking
Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
Overview VMware Identity Manager aka vIDM (soon to be known as Workspace One Access) is a key piece of the vRealize Automation stack. Previous versions of vRA used an embedded build of vIDM within the vRA appliance and allowed the identity management capabilities to scale out as vRA itself scaled. With vRA 8 this is … Continue reading Identity Management – Scale Out via vRSLCM
vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
Overview Today I thought I'd get back to vRealize Automation 8, in particular leveraging extensibility. Previously I have shown some examples of breaking out of the provisioning lifecycle to perform some external operations (CMDB updates etc.) however this time I want to look at how you can augment the provisioning process with information from external … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Customizing IP Assignments with vRO
vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
vRealize Automation 8 comes with significant changes to architecture, constructs and concepts from vRA 7.x and previous. For those customers who are thinking about migrating a 7.5+ based system to 8.x, an assessment is vital to verify how ready you are to head in this direction and the configuration you will likely need to address. … Continue reading vRealize Automation 7 to 8 Migration Assessment
vRealize Automation 8 – Users and Groups
Granting access to vRealize Automation 8 is a completely different process to vRealize Automation 7.x. This is partly due to the required use of an external VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) component and being based on the completely different code base from vRealize Automation Cloud (i.e. the SaaS offering). Note: product names are likely to change … Continue reading vRealize Automation 8 – Users and Groups
Deploying vRealize Automation 8
This article is going to cover the basics in deploying vRealize Automation 8.0 using the easy installer. This is an approach which we (VMware) have used before for other applications where the install is delivered as a downloadable ISO which you can mount and run from a desktop machine. This installer within the ISO deploys … Continue reading Deploying vRealize Automation 8
Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
The last few deployment tests that I have run in Cloud Assembly have resulted in deployment failures, not because there is anything wrong with the blueprint in question but because the extensibility has failed. Normally I would put this down to mistakes in coding or bad error handling but in this case my workflow is … Continue reading Cloud Assembly – Targetting a Specific vRO Instance
